now, i'm not suggesting that these 10% plans -- texas, florida and california have them -- plans where the top x percent of high school graduates are automatically guaranteed admission to the university, the public university system. in texas a coalition of strange bedfellows supports that policy and has insulated it from repeal. and this is, you know, white rural republicans, latinos and blacks in that state. they have held firm against efforts by voters in advantaged districts to repeal it. and the policy has been an enormous public success. it has opened up and widened the pipeline to the ut system. kids from disadvantaged districts that were never getting into ut are getting into ut, and it's raised the college-going behavior of kids at schools that didn't used to think of themself as a place that incubated college graduates. and that's an example of the type of transformative politics i'm talking about. sometimes it feels to me like the civil rights community is just trying to hold on to the gains of the past. and i just don't think -- we're in a very bad moment, you know? it's ho